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For the first day of the Association of University Presses’ “University Press Week,” we wanted to highlight some very important members of the University of Illinois Press community: the scholars who not only serve as editors of our journals, but also as authors of books published by our Press! At UIP, we try to look for opportunities for the books and journals departments to TeamUP as much as possible, so we’re always excited when there is cross-over! This list is just a sampling of the connections between our editors and authors, joining an extensive array of past editors who have published with us.”
Nancy Yunhwa Rao
Journal: Editor of American Music
Books: Author of Inside Chinese Theater: Community and Artistry in Nineteenth-Century California and Beyond (2025) and Chinatown Opera Theater in North America (2017)
Cristina Rosetti
Journal: Editor of Mormon Studies Review
Books: Author of Joseph White Musser: A Mormon Fundamentalist (2024)
Robert D. Sampson
Journal: Editor of Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society
Book: Author of Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins: Inside Early Baseball in Illinois (2023)
Caroline Kline
Journal: Current co-editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought with Margaret Olsen Hemming
Book: Author of Mormon Women at the Crossroads: Global Narratives and the Power of Connectedness (2022)
Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey
Journal: Co-editors of Journal of Animal Ethics
Books: Co-editors of The Ethical Case against Animal Experiments (2018)
Andrew Linzey is also the editor of The Global Guide to Animal Protection (2013), co-editor of Animals on the Agenda: Questions about Animals for Theology and Ethics (1998) with Dorothy Yamamoto, and author of Animal Theology (1995).
Matthew P. Llewellyn
Journal: Editor of Journal of Olympic Studies
Book: Co-author of The Rise and Fall of Olympic Amateurism (2016) with John Gleaves (an Associate Editor of Journal of Olympic Studies)
Anna D. Jaroszynska-Kirchmann
Journal: Current editor of Polish American Studies
Book: Author of The Polish Hearst: Ameryka-Echo and the Public Role of the Immigrant Press (2015)
Gary Scharnhorst
Journal: Editor of American Literary Realism
Book: Author of Julian Hawthorne: The Life of a Prodigal Son (2014)
Daniel A. Nathan
Journal: Editor of Journal of Sport History
Books: Editor of Rooting for the Home Team: Sport, Community, and Identity (2013) and author of Saying It’s So: A Cultural History of the Black Sox Scandal (2005)
Daniel A. Dombrowski
Journal: Current editor of Process Studies
Books: Co-author of A Brief, Liberal, Catholic Defense of Abortion (2007) with Robert Deltete, author of Babies and Beasts: The Argument from Marginal Cases (1997)
Suzanne M. Sinke
Journal: Editor of Journal of American Ethnic History
Book: Author of Dutch Immigrant Women in the United States, 1880-1920 (2002)
Common Threads
Common Threads volumes gather hand-selected material on timely and teachable topics, framed with thoughtful introductions by leading scholars. Each volume in this innovative series brings together thematically linked content curated through our journals program. Perfect for use in the classroom and available in both ebook and print form, Common Threads volumes are meant to reach a wide audience of scholars and interested readers.
Two of the Common Threads Volumes come from current journal editors:
Animal Ethics for Veterinarians (2017), edited by Andrew and Clair Linzey, includes articles published in Journal of Animal Ethics.
Arts Education in Action: Collaborative Pedagogies for Social Justice (2020) was co-edited by Sarah Travis, one of the current editors of Visual Arts Research, along with Jody Stokes-Casey and Seoyeon Kim.
Be sure to check out the other titles in the series on our website here.